Celebrate Music City: FREE Urban Music Festival

Celebrate Music City is a 3-part, weekly, family-friendly festival series that showcases and embraces the diversity of our city's music scene and communities. This event will be outdoors on a beautiful green space close to downtown Nashville at New Heights Brewery.

Thursday, May 30th will feature concert performances from the Urban Music community, which is an underrepresented genre in Nashville’s music scene. This event was curated in partnership with Inner Circle which spotlights music artists from rap, hip hop, R&B, neo-soul, just to name a few. They’re really putting Nashville on people’s radar for Urban Music!

If you've never seen live hip-hop music with a full band... change that by coming to our FREE concert! The live band element creates a cool vibe and showcases the incredible level of musicianship that's prevalent within this genre.

Agenda for May 30 is as follows

5p: Festival Area Opens

6-7p: Street Style Dance Lesson from Dance Sh*t by CB 

7-7:45p: Qualls

8:15-9p: Jyou & Kon

9:30-10:15p: SymbaSyd

The festival is free and open to the general public. Each event will encourage dancing, cultural learning experiences, relaxing and soaking up the good vibes in the green space, and of course amazing live music! We are also curating local retail and food vendors to support the diversity of Nashville’s local businesses which is important to our communities!

We believe music can bridge different communities together to build a more equitable and inclusive Nashville. Each festival day is themed by genre, including Latinx Music with a salsa dancing lesson, Urban Music with a street-style dancing lesson, and Americana Music with a country swing dancing lesson.

Music Neighbors, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, believes that supporting and sustaining Nashville’s local music ecosystem is vital to Music City’s identity and culture. That's why we've allied with underrepresented music artists and organizations to curate this amazing festival series to celebrate all the sounds and vibrant culture of Nashville!

This series is made possible with funding from:

Tennessee Arts Commission and the Robert K. and Anne H. Zelle Fund for Fine and Performing Arts of Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee

Special thanks to New Heights Brewing and Inner Circle for partnering with us for this event! Also thank you to Dance Sh*t by CB for providing a community dance lesson to kick off the event and to 102.1 The Ville for being our media sponsor!

Be sure to come hungry too as The Pepper Pott will be onsite serving up their amazing Caribbean fare!

Host or Publisher Music Neighbors